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Ted Cruz Misrepresents the Law and His Being a Natural Born Citizen at Town Hall Meeting

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Ted Cruz Misrepresents the Law and His Being a Natural Born Citizen at Town Hall Meeting | by Atty Mario Apuzzo

“During a CNN Republican presidential town hall in Greenville, South Carolina on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, a self-identified supporter of Sen. Ted Cruz asked him to explain why he believes that he is a natural born citizen under the Constitution even though he was born in Canada. “In order to prevent future controversy and possible litigation will you please justify, constitutionally, your legal right to be president of the United States as it relates to your natural born status?” Julie Hershey asked Cruz. The full exchange can be seen on video at http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cruz-eligibility-cnn-town-hall

Cruz, in a style and tone as if he were arguing his case before the U.S. Supreme Court, said that he was happy that Ms. Hershey (the Justice) asked him that question. He then answered that “the law under the Constitution and federal law have been clear from the very first days of the Republic. The child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen.” He continued that if two Americans travel overseas and have a child there, the child is “a U.S. citizen by virtue of birth.” The child born to U.S. service members overseas is “a natural born citizen by virtue of the child’s parents.” The child born to U.S. citizen missionaries overseas “are natural born citizens.” John McCain, who was born in Panama to two U.S. citizen parents, “was a natural born citizen.” George Romney, who was born in Mexico to two U.S. citizen parents “was a natural born citizen.”

Then Cruz reached back to the early years of the Republic. He said that the First Congress, which contained many Founders and Framers and who wrote the first naturalization Act, “explicitly defined the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad as a natural born citizen.”

Cruz then admitted that he was born in Canada. But he added that he was born there to a mother who was a U.S. citizen. He concludes that therefore “I was a citizen by birth by virtue of my mother’s citizenship. So, I have never been naturalized. I’ve never breathed a breath of fresh air on this planet when I was not a U.S. citizen. It was the act of being born that made me a U.S. citizen.”

Cruz then concluded that “under the law the question is clear. There will still be some who try to make political mischief on it, but as a legal matter this is clear and straightforward.” He finalized by saying that any suit brought by Donald Trump against him would not be meritorious.